Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Année : 2025

Enhancing Safety in Collaborative Cable-Driven Parallel Robots: Contact Distinction and Management for Carrying Tasks

Amélioration de la sécurité dans les robots parallèles à câbles collaboratifs : distinction et gestion des contacts pour des tâches de portage

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Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) have shown significant potential in industrial applications due to their large workspace, high payload capacity, and flexibility. Nonetheless, ensuring safe and efficient human-robot collaboration, particularly during carrying tasks, remains an open problem. This paper primarily contributes a cable tension-based metric for detecting contact events, combined with a frequency-domain analysis of estimated external wrenches to distinguish different contact scenarios. Building upon this framework, three common contact scenarios are then addressed: (i) payload placement and removal without rigid attachment to the moving-platform (SC1), (ii) unintentional human-cable collisions (SC2), and (iii) humanplatform collisions (SC3). Specific management strategies are then proposed, including real-time mass estimation for payload handling, cable tension release for human-cable collisions, and a compliant trajectory controller for human-platform collisions. Experimental validations on a CDPR prototype demonstrate accurate scenario classification and safe contact handling without compromising overall productivity. By facilitating safer interactions, improved adaptability, and reliable handling of diverse contact events, this work expands the applicability of collaborative CDPRs in real-world industrial and logistic settings.

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hal-05148888 , version 1 (07-07-2025)
hal-05148888 , version 2 (15-07-2025)

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Hanbang Gao, Christine Chevallereau, Stéphane Caro. Enhancing Safety in Collaborative Cable-Driven Parallel Robots: Contact Distinction and Management for Carrying Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025, 22, pp.18860-18874. ⟨10.1109/TASE.2025.3589966⟩. ⟨hal-05148888v2⟩
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